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EXPLAINED: 11 | Vintage Vibes

Tories to step up attacks on Reform economic policy after Jenrick acrimony

Two sides trade blows over defection while Conservative polling suggests economy is key weakness for Reform

The Guardian - UK

Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit

Reform’s latest defector from the Tories is a politician whose eye has only ever been on his own ambition

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch emerges stronger from Jenrick’s messy split from Tories

Pre-empting rival’s defection cements her position as leader and gives pause for thought for any others who may follow

The Guardian - UK

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Will Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform convince wavering Tories to jump ship?

IN DEPTH : Nigel Farage’s warning that MPs have until May – the date of the English local elections – has prompted fears of more departures, write Kate Devlin and David Maddox

The Independent UK

Still confused about swedes and turnips

Letters: Vegetable names | Swindon Town | Unusual plants | Robert Jenrick

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP blasts former boss Robert Jenrick as 'man of no principles' - as Reform's new prize claims he's uniting the right

Ben Obese-Jecty blasted the former Tory leadership candidate after he joined Nigel Farage’s party

Evening Standard

Zipcar confirms end of UK operations to 650,000 drivers

The car-sharing company launched a formal consultation with staff last month

The Independent UK

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Eleven Tory MPs on defection watch list over fears more could join Farage’s Reform

Senior Tories are concerned that Robert Jenrick’s departure could trigger others to follow

The Independent UK

Producer concerned for safety of ‘human swan’ expedition cameraman, inquiry told

Dan Burton, 54, died in a mid-air paramotor collision with climate activist Sacha Dench in the Highlands in 2021.

Evening Standard

Robert Jenrick: My defection to Reform ‘united the right’

In an interview with the BBC, Mr Jenrick denied that personal ambition had played a role in his defection.

Evening Standard

Tory ‘arsonists’ still in charge of party, says Jenrick as he hits back at Badenoch

Former Conservative minister who has joined Reform responds to allegations of lying from his former leader

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch hails Russell Findlay as ‘best person’ to be first minister

The Conservative leader was speaking during a visit to Aberdeen on Friday.

Evening Standard

Mystic Nigel has seen the future: a country run by his cabinet of taxidermied Tories

By welcoming ‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick into the fold, the Reform seer is embracing the uniparty chaos he claimed to be seeing off, writes Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Farage has done my spring cleaning, says Badenoch after Jenrick defection

The Conservative leader said Reform are ‘taking people who are repeatedly sacked from government’.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Union boss ‘held up communist flag alongside people singing pro-Russia chants in occupied Ukraine’

RMT spokesperson insists that Eddie Dempsey has ‘at no time supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’

The Independent UK

‘Jenrick will always be known as a Tory traitor, I know because it happened to me,’ says Michael Gove

Reform plots turning it into the ‘Slytherin house’ of politics, says ex-Tory minister

The Conversation

Robert Jenrick sacked by Tories and embraced by Reform – what his Newark constituency tells us about the future

Within just a few hours of being publicly sacked from the shadow cabinet by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick held a press conference to announce he was joining Reform. Badenoch cited “clear, irrefutable evidence” the Jenrick had been plotting to defect to Reform in a maximally damaging way.

The Guardian - UK

‘Enough already’: Jenrick’s defection gets mixed reception from Reform members

Some supporters are concerned about the number of Conservatives being welcomed by their party, and fear it could alienate voters

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Evening Standard

Robert Jenrick’s successor says public ‘sick of backstabbing’ after defection

Nick Timothy also said the Conservative Party is ‘more united under Kemi’s leadership than I’ve known it for many years’.

The Guardian - UK

Jenrick says he hopes his defection to Reform UK will ‘unite the right’ after Badenoch says he ‘tells a lot of lies’ – as it happened

Reform UK’s newest MP said he made the decision to leave the Tories over Christmas

The Independent UK

Farage ‘couldn’t run a five-a-side team’, Jenrick says in leaked audio

Robert Jenrick can be heard criticising his new boss and dismissing Reform UK as ‘not a serious party’ in leaked audio

Evening Standard

'Traitors' politics: Minister's warning as Farage teases Labour defection to Reform after Jenrick joins from Tories

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Reform UK was a ‘Right-wing project’ despite Nigel Farage’s party attracting a significant number of Labour voters

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: How the Robert Jenrick saga exposes a hollowed out Tory party

In today’s newsletter: A sudden dismissal appears to have forced the hand of the most senior Tory to join the ranks of Reform so far

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan warns AI could become ‘weapon of mass destruction of jobs’

The Labour politician highlighted the significant threat the burgeoning technology poses to the capital's workforce.

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch bids to steady Tories after Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform

The Newark MP said most of his former Tory colleagues ‘don’t have the stomach for the radical change this country needs’.

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